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293 Prevents quotes by 250 unique authors
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By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair"…
— John Gofman
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
— Martial
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him…
— Mark Twain
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The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying…
— Henry Moore
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Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as…
— John Ruskin
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Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro…
— Joan Miro
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Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents…
— John Muir
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The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we…
— Frederick Lenz
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I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists…
— Steve Gleason
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
— Andre Gide
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And…
— Mitch Daniels
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I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
— Stephen Hopkins
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done…
— Wilson Mizner
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon…
— Shimon Peres
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
— Marcel Proust
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